Al Roker holds the record for the longest continuous live weather forecast: 34 hours!

On November 13 thousands of people across the globe celebrated the tenth annual Guinness World Records Day. The record-shattering took many forms as 600,000 Guinness World Records title hopefuls from the United States, China, Dubai, Australia, France, Great Britain, Japan and numerous other locales vied to get their names to the newest Guinness World Records book.

To commemorate the day, which also marked 60th anniversary of the Guinness World Records book, Guinness World Records brought together the world’s tallest and shortest living men, Sultan Kösen and Chandra Bahadur Dangi. Kösen, a Turkish native, stands at 8’3″. Dangi, who hails from Nepal, is 21.5 inches. “To be able to finally meet Chandra after all this time is amazing,” said Kösen when the pair met in London. “Even though he is short and I am tall, we have had similar struggles throughout our lives and when I look into Chandra’s eyes, I can see he’s a good man.”

Here are some of our favorite wacky and wonderful 2014 record-setting achievements.

In London, 373 people created the largest gathering of folks dressed as penguins.

Al Roker set a record for the longest continuous live weather forecast — 34 hours! The #Rokerthon started on Wednesday, November 12 and ended at 8am on Friday. It was all in the name of charity as the record breaking also helped raise money for Roker’s Crowdrise campaign, which benefits the armed forces and United States Service Organizations (USO).

At Hinode Elementary School and Hinode Junior High School in Japan more than 750 students created a new record for “Most Paper Aircrafts Made in Five minutes.”

Dancers at the famous Moulin Rouge in Paris broke the record for the most simultaneous demi-grand rond de jambe cancan kicks by a single chorus line in 30 seconds. They smashed the prior record with 29 kicks.

In New York, Kenneth Cole and Today Show Contributor Jill Martin created the world’s largest high-heeled shoe. The shoe which measures 6 feet, 1 inch tall and 6 feet, 5 inches long was modeled after the Kenneth Cole New York Otto and took nearly 400 hours to make. In honor of the record-breaking shoe, KennethCole.com is donating$5 from the sale of every shoe (until 6pm on November 14th) to the Garden of Dreams Foundation which helps make dreams come true for children.

Breakfast in bed? In Shanghai, China at the Pudong Shangri-La hotel grand ballroom, 388 people congregated in 202 beds to simultaneously share breakfast in bed. They beat the prior record holders by 99 people.

Harlem Globetrotters player Thunder Law made a record for the farthest basketball shot made backwards. 82 feet 2 inches backwards from the basket and he still made that slam dunk!

Katsumi Tamakoshi of Japan broke a record for the fastest 100 m running on all fours. He managed to do the 4 limbed feat in just 15.86 seconds.

320 pupils at Armidale High School, in Australia (halfway between Sydney and Brisbane) broke the record for the most people simultaneously head banging. They did this while listening to AC/DC’s “It’s A Long Way To The Top.”

How about the world record for the largest rice mosaic? Done and done! The Chinese Taoism Folk Culture Association in Changhua City, Taiwan created a rice mosaic that measures 19,353.51 square feet.